The Zen position of non-thinking always harbors the danger of degenerating into not thinking.

“In Zen, the positive and creative aspects of human thinking have been neglected and only its dualistic and discriminative aspects have realized as something to be overcome. Reason in Buddhism Was only grasped as a negative principle … . The Zen position of non-thinking always harbors the danger of degenerating into not thinking… . Essentially, the standpoint of non-thinking should also be able to be said to have the possibility of giving life to the positive aspects of human thinking that have been developed in the West. But this possibility has not yet been actualized. Precisely the actualization and existentialization of this possibility must be the theme of the future for the standpoint of the true emptiness of the Eastern tradition.”

― Masao Abe, Zen and Western Thought